The best Christopher Lee’s horror movies

Christopher Lee

Christopher Lee

27/05/1922- 07/06/2015
Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee, CBE, CStJ (born May 27, 1922, died June 7, 2015) was an English actor and musician. Lee initially portrayed villains and became famous for his role as Count Dracula in a string of Hammer Horror films. Other notable roles include Lord Summerisle in The Wicker Man (1973), Francisco Scaramanga in The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), Count Dooku in Star Wars episodes II and III (2002, 2005) and Saruman in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001–2003). Lee considers his most important role to have been his portrayal of Pakistan's founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah in the biopic Jinnah (1998). He is well known for his deep, strong voice. Lee has performed roles in 266 films since 1948 making him the Guinness book world record holder for most film acting roles ever. He was knighted in 2009 and received the BAFTA Fellowship in 2011.
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Sleepy Hollow

Sleepy Hollow
7.3/10
New York detective Ichabod Crane is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate a series of mysterious deaths in which the victims are found beheaded. Locals believe the culprit to be none other than the legendary Headless Horseman.

Gremlins 2: The New Batch

Gremlins 2: The New Batch
6.4/10
Young sweethearts Billy and Kate move to the Big Apple, land jobs in a high-tech office park and soon reunite with the friendly and lovable Gizmo. But a series of accidents creates a whole new generation of Gremlins. The situation worsens when the devilish green creatures invade a top-secret laboratory and develop genetically altered powers, making them even harder to destroy!

The Wicker Man

The Wicker Man
7.5/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 01/12/1973
  • Character: Lord Summerisle
Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. Stranger still, however, are the rituals that take place there.

Dracula

Dracula
7.2/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 22/05/1958
  • Character: Count Dracula
After Jonathan Harker attacks Dracula at his castle, the vampire travels to a nearby city, where he preys on the family of Harker's fiancée. The only one who may be able to protect them is Dr. van Helsing, Harker's friend and fellow-student of vampires, who is determined to destroy Dracula, whatever the cost.

Burke & Hare

Burke & Hare
6.1/10
Two 19th-century opportunists become serial killers so that they can maintain their profitable business supplying cadavers to an anatomist.

Scars of Dracula

Scars of Dracula
6.1/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 08/11/1970
  • Character: Dracula
The Prince of Darkness casts his undead shadow once more over the cursed village of Kleinenberg when his ashes are splashed with bat's blood and Dracula is resurrected. And two innocent victims search for a missing loved one... loved to death by Dracula's mistress. But after they discover his blood-drained corpse in Dracula's castle necropolis, the Vampire Lord's lustful vengeance begins.

Taste of Fear

Taste of Fear
7.4/10
A wheelchair-bound young girl returns to her father's estate after ten years, and although she's told he's away, she keeps seeing his dead body on the estate.

Taste the Blood of Dracula

Taste the Blood of Dracula
6.3/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 07/05/1970
  • Character: Dracula
Three elderly distinguished gentlemen are searching for some excitement in their boring borgoueis lives and gets in contact with one of count Dracula's servants. In a nightly ceremony they restore the count back to life. The three men killed Dracula's servant and as a revenge, the count makes sure that the gentlemen are killed one by one by their own sons.

The Bloody Judge

The Bloody Judge
5.2/10
  • Genre: HistoryHorror
  • Release: 05/02/1970
  • Character: Lord George Jeffreys
Horror icon Christopher Lee, who worked with Jess Franco on several occasions, plays Lord George Jeffreys, the infamous and merciless judge and Lord Chancellor in England torn by strife between the reigning King James II and William of Orange. Convincend of doing what's necessary, the cruel judge mercilessly persecutes 'traitors', who sympathize with the King's opponent William of Orange, as well as 'witches', who are accused of being in league with the devil...

Dracula: Prince of Darkness

Dracula: Prince of Darkness
6.6/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 09/01/1966
  • Character: Count Dracula
Whilst vacationing in the Carpathian Mountain, two couples stumble across the remains of Count Dracula's castle. The Count's trusted servant kills one of the men, suspending the body over the Count's ashes so that the blood drips from the corpse and saturates the blackened remains. The ritual is completed, the Count revived and his attentions focus on the dead man's wife who is to become his partner; devoted to an existence of depravity and evil.

Count Dracula

Count Dracula
5.6/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 03/04/1970
  • Character: Dracula
Jess Franco's version of the Bram Stoker classic has Count Dracula as an old man who grows younger whenever he dines on the blood of young maidens.

Horror Express

Horror Express
6.5/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 30/09/1972
  • Character: Prof. Sir Alexander Saxton
Mysterious and unearthly deaths start to occur while Professor Saxton is transporting the frozen remains of a primitive humanoid creature he found in Manchuria back to Europe.

The Curse of Frankenstein

The Curse of Frankenstein
7/10
Baron Victor Frankenstein has discovered life's secret and unleashed a blood-curdling chain of events resulting from his creation: a cursed creature with a horrid face — and a tendency to kill.

The Whip and the Body

The Whip and the Body
6.6/10
  • Genre: HorrorMystery
  • Release: 29/08/1963
  • Character: Kurt Menliff
In the 19th century, a sadistic nobleman terrorizes the members of his family. He is found dead, but his ghost soon returns to haunt the residents of his castle.

Extraordinary Tales

Extraordinary Tales
6.4/10
  • Genre: AnimationHorrorMystery
  • Release: 28/02/2013
  • Character: Narrator (voice) (segment 'The Fall of the House of Usher')
Five tales by Edgar Allan Poe come to life thanks to a pictorical style animation, five tales that exude madness, pestilence, murder and torture.

The Skull

The Skull
6.2/10
  • Genre: HorrorThriller
  • Release: 25/08/1965
  • Character: Sir Matthew Phillips
An occult investigator buys the 150 year old stolen skull of Marquis de Sade, which turns out to be possessed by evil spirits.

The Satanic Rites of Dracula

The Satanic Rites of Dracula
5.5/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 03/11/1973
  • Character: Count Dracula
The police and British security forces call in Professor Van Helsing to help them investigate Satanic ritual which has been occurring in a large country house, and which has been attended by a government minister, an eminent scientist and secret service chief. The owner of the house is a mysterious property tycoon who is found to be behind a sinister plot involving a deadly plague. It is in fact Dracula who, sick of his interminable existence, has decided that he must end it all in the only possible way- by destroying every last potential victim.

To the Devil a Daughter

To the Devil a Daughter
5.8/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 04/03/1976
  • Character: Father Michael
An American occult novelist battles to save the soul of a young girl from a group of Satanists, led by an excommunicated priest, who plan on using her as the representative of the Devil on Earth.

The Devil Rides Out

The Devil Rides Out
6.9/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 20/07/1968
  • Character: Duc de Richleau
The powers of good are pitted against the forces of evil as the Duc de Richelieu wrestles with the charming but deadly Satanist, Mocata, for the soul of his friend. Mocata has the knowledge and the power to summon the forces of darkness and, as the Duc de Richelieu and his friends remain within the protected pentacle, they are subjected to ever-increasing horror until thundering hooves herald the arrival of the Angel of Death.

The House That Dripped Blood

The House That Dripped Blood
6.5/10
  • Genre: HorrorMystery
  • Release: 22/02/1971
  • Character: John Reid (segment 3 "Sweets to the Sweet")
A Scotland Yard investigator looks into four mysterious cases involving an unoccupied house.

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